Lesley & Grant
About Lesley & Grant
Are you looking for a mature, non-smoking couple who offer honesty, reliability and commitment and who, of course, also love animals? We are a retired couple who owned and managed a dog kennel and cattery business before our retirement. We have first hand experience with all types of dogs; timid, aggressive, large and small. Local vets recomme...
Are you looking for a mature, non-smoking couple who offer honesty, reliability and commitment and who, of course, also love animals? We are a retired couple who owned and managed a dog kennel and cattery business before our retirement. We have first hand experience with all types of dogs; timid, aggressive, large and small. Local vets recommended us to look after convalescing dogs and we had many animal health issues to manage with both cats and dogs (e.g. epilepsy, diabetes, cancer, operation recovery, or just plain old age) .
We also regularly looked after a very special search and rescue dog whilst her owner travelled on overseas assignments where the transportation of dogs was not needed; in fact she stayed with us after returning from the devastating Christchurch earthquake assignment for rest and recuperation where she was involved in searching for victims and survivors.
We loved them all and want to continue this love and care through housesitting.
We have always owned dogs and cats, two huskies through to old age until March 2015 and currently two ex-racing greyhounds. The photo shows the huskies some years ago when they used to enjoy racing (unfortunately no snow).
We are now experienced housesitters and had the priviledge of housesitting in Australia, Vanuatu and England, as well as in our home country, New Zealand. We pride ourselves on looking after our host homes as we would our own and will go the extra mile to ensure satisfaction.
Why we want to house sit
We joined Trusted Housesitters about 4 years ago and have been working to build our housesitting reputation with a view to housesitting throughout the world, living as locals rather than tourists. It is also a way of continuing our love of looking after other people's pets.
Our experience
We will look after your house as our own. Apart from keeping your house clean and tidy we are happy to do whatever gardening maintenance that is required. When we owned the kennel business we also had 10 acres of land upon which our farmer neighbour grazed his sheep so we were in a position to monitor them for any concerns, reporting to the farmer when necessary. We are happy to feed, monitor and water farm animals and looked after two horses plus 9 chickens on one housesit in Australia, and two Shetland Ponies two years ago in Cornwall.
Prior to our boarding kennels and cattery experience we both came from the corporate world, combined experience in retail, human resources, project management, IT and training & development.
We also use the housesitting site to engage housesitters for our own home and dogs and very happy with the results, so we appreciate and want to maintain the obvious high standard of the members.
Reviews (13)
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Caroline - Oatley, New South Wales, Australia
01 July - 12 July 2015
Lesley and Grant have looked after our two fur babies twice and they are a lovely honest, trustworthy, caring couple. Both my dogs were very relaxed in their company.
Lesley and Grant have looked after our two fur babies twice and they are a lovely honest, trustworthy, caring couple. Both my dogs were very relaxed in their company.
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Janet - Market Harborough, United Kingdom
11 August 2016
Lesley and Grant looked after my home and two cats whilst I was away. One cat is rather nervous, but they soon won its trust. I returned home to a tidy, clean home and relaxed cats.
Lesley and Grant looked after my home and two cats whilst I was away. One cat is rather nervous, but they soon won its trust. I returned home to a tidy, clean home and relaxed cats.
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Sally - Bath, United Kingdom
12 August 2016
This was our first experience of using house sitters to look after our two Jack Russell's and it really couldn't have been better. Lesley and Grant are a lovely couple and did a brilliant job of caring for our dogs and the house. Going away knowing everything was going to be well looked after was...
This was our first experience of using house sitters to look after our two Jack Russell's and it really couldn't have been better. Lesley and Grant are a lovely couple and did a brilliant job of caring for our dogs and the house. Going away knowing everything was going to be well looked after was priceless. The house was spotless and Lesley had prepared a gorgeous and very welcome meal for us on our return. We just wish they lived closer to us so that they could come again!
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About Lesley & Grant
Are you looking for a mature, non-smoking couple who offer honesty, reliability and commitment and who, of course, also love animals? We are a retired couple who owned and managed a dog kennel and cattery business before our retirement. We have first hand experience with all types of dogs; timid, aggressive, large and small. Local vets recommended us to look after convalescing dogs and we had many animal health issues to manage with both cats and dogs (e.g. epilepsy, diabetes, cancer, operation recovery, or just plain old age) .
We also regularly looked after a very special search and rescue dog whilst her owner travelled on overseas assignments where the transportation of dogs was not needed; in fact she stayed with us after returning from the devastating Christchurch earthquake assignment for rest and recuperation where she was involved in searching for victims and survivors. ......
Are you looking for a mature, non-smoking couple who offer honesty, reliability and commitment and who, of course, also love animals? We are a retired couple who owned and managed a dog kennel and cattery business before our retirement. We have first hand experience with all types of dogs; timid, aggressive, large and small. Local vets recommended us to look after convalescing dogs and we had many animal health issues to manage with both cats and dogs (e.g. epilepsy, diabetes, cancer, operation recovery, or just plain old age) .
We also regularly looked after a very special search and rescue dog whilst her owner travelled on overseas assignments where the transportation of dogs was not needed; in fact she stayed with us after returning from the devastating Christchurch earthquake assignment for rest and recuperation where she was involved in searching for victims and survivors.
We loved them all and want to continue this love and care through housesitting.
We have always owned dogs and cats, two huskies through to old age until March 2015 and currently two ex-racing greyhounds. The photo shows the huskies some years ago when they used to enjoy racing (unfortunately no snow).
We are now experienced housesitters and had the priviledge of housesitting in Australia, Vanuatu and England, as well as in our home country, New Zealand. We pride ourselves on looking after our host homes as we would our own and will go the extra mile to ensure satisfaction.
Why we want to house sit
We joined Trusted Housesitters about 4 years ago and have been working to build our housesitting reputation with a view to housesitting throughout the world, living as locals rather than tourists. It is also a way of continuing our love of looking after other people's pets.
Our experience
We will look after your house as our own. Apart from keeping your house clean and tidy we are happy to do whatever gardening maintenance that is required. When we owned the kennel business we also had 10 acres of land upon which our farmer neighbour grazed his sheep so we were in a position to monitor them for any concerns, reporting to the farmer when necessary. We are happy to feed, monitor and water farm animals and looked after two horses plus 9 chickens on one housesit in Australia, and two Shetland Ponies two years ago in Cornwall.
Prior to our boarding kennels and cattery experience we both came from the corporate world, combined experience in retail, human resources, project management, IT and training & development.
We also use the housesitting site to engage housesitters for our own home and dogs and very happy with the results, so we appreciate and want to maintain the obvious high standard of the members.
Verifications
Verification level
Standard level
Email Address, Phone Number, External references (1), Identity & Document Check
All Standard Verification checks are carried out by a specialist 3rd Party
Animal Care Experience
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Dogs
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Cats
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Horses
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Fish
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Poultry
Availability
Preferred Countries
- Australia
- Brazil
- Canada
- Greece
- Italy
- Spain
- Switzerland
- United States
- Antarctica
- British Virgin Islands
- Brunei
- Cayman Islands
- Christmas Island
- Curacao
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Falkland Islands
- Faroe Islands
- Fiji
- Finland
- French Polynesia
- Greenland
- Guernsey
- Hong Kong
- Iceland
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Jersey
- Maldives
- New Caledonia
- Norfolk Island
- Norway
- Pitcairn
- Poland
- Portugal
- Samoa
- Saudi Arabia
- Seychelles
- Singapore
- Solomon Islands
- South Korea
- Sweden
- Thailand
- Tonga
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- U.S. Virgin Islands
- United Arab Emirates
- United States Minor Outlying Islands
- Vanuatu
- Vietnam
Profile Details
Age
Occupation
Travelling as a
Previous house sitting experience
Member benefits
Member since
House & pet sitting timeline
Lesley and Grant have done 14 house sits since 2014
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MaunBotswanaAug - Sep 2018 -
BathUnited KingdomAug 2016
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Market HarboroughUnited KingdomAug 2016 -
CamborneUnited KingdomJun 2016 -
WhitehavenUnited KingdomMay 2016 -
TallebudgeraAustraliaAug 2015 -
OatleyAustraliaJul 2015 -
Port-VilaVanuatuMay - Jun 2015
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Mount AnnanAustraliaApr 2015 -
GreymouthNew ZealandJan 2015 -
LisarowAustraliaOct 2014 -
Te KauwhataNew ZealandOct 2014
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AucklandNew ZealandJul 2014 -
OatleyAustraliaJul 2014
